Focus SECOND EDITION

Placement Test – Assessment Criteria

This Placement Test is designed to help the teacher to place students at the right level of the Focus SECOND EDITION series.
The test contains 100 multiple-choice questions and is designed to last for an hour.

The test covers the language taught in the Focus SECOND EDITION series.
 Part A (items 1–25) covers material from Focus 1 SECOND EDITION.
 Part B (items 26–50) covers material from Focus 2 SECOND EDITION.
 Part C (items 51–75) covers material from Focus 3 SECOND EDITION.
 Part D (items 76–100) covers material from Focus 4 SECOND EDITION.

Each part of the test should be graded separately so that a learner would gain a separate score out of 25 on each test.
The pass grade for each test is 18/25.

The resulting score card might look as follows:

Part A 24/25 √ pass
Part B 18/25 √ pass
Part C 12/25 x
Part D 6/25 x
Suggested Focus 3
level: SECOND EDITION

From the example above, this learner has a good knowledge of English at level 1 and a reasonable knowledge at level 2. The learner’s cut-off point is clearly
at level 3 and he/she would be placed in the group studying Focus 3 SECOND EDITION.

Students who pass all four parts of the test should use Focus 5 SECOND EDITION.

In any test based on multiple choice items, learners will have a statistical chance of guessing the correct response. In order to reduce this influence, we should
ignore any correct responses in tests above the cut-off point (so in the example above, the 6/25 on Part D would be ignored). For the same reason, we do not
TOTAL the scores from the tests. The total score would have little meaning.

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